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This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests. If these interests do not describe you, this course may prepare you for work you may not find satisfying.

Creative

Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.

Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.

In the first year of the course will focus and develop your own traditional music practices in weekly classes, masterclasses from visiting performers, ensemble work as well as begin music theory and keyboard classes. You will also be introduced to critical academic engagement with classical, popular, traditional, contemporary, world music and dance through a performative lens.

From second year onwards, you will deepen your focus on Irish Music. Students will undertake additional specialist modules in Irish music and dance studies and ethnomusicology as well as focusing on vocational issues in technology, business and education.